acme
[ak-mee]
- the highest point; summit; peak: The empire was at the acme of its power.
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Origin of acme
First recorded in 1610–20, acme is from the Greek word akmḗ point, highest point, extremity
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Contemporary Examples
The team behind Indochine and Acme is also opening Tijuana Picnic in the LES sometime this month.
Who to See and Where to be Seen: The Hot Tips for New York Fashion WeekBarbara Ragghianti
September 3, 2014
He is the acme of political correctness (notwithstanding the odd drone directed at “AfPak”).
I did comedy sketches of her at ACME, but she was known as ‘The Other Mrs. Gabor’ then.
But Sanjay seems today like an adumbration, rather than the acme, of authoritarian possibilities in India.
ACME has a mousetrap division that is not performing very well.
Historical Examples
Traffic was intense, and had reached what might be supposed its acme.
Why, it was almost as bad as that acme of horrors, a chimney-pot hat!
Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2)William Delisle Hay
But that's no matter, for the acme of my military ambitions is now attained.
War Letters of a Public-School BoyPaul Jones.
This generous disposition of yours I now regard as acme of human dower.
Oswald LangdonCarson Jay Lee
Sir Donald follows the sense of compassion, which often is the acme of intrinsic craft.
Oswald LangdonCarson Jay Lee
acme
- the culminating point, as of achievement or excellence; summit; peak
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Word Origin
C16: from Greek akmē
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Word Origin and History for acme
n.
"highest point," 1560s, from Greek akme "(highest) point, edge; peak of anything," from PIE root *ak- "sharp" (see acrid). Written in Greek letters until c.1620. The U.S. grocery store chain was founded 1891 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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